Who is it suitable for:
Snapchat allegedly started out as a way to send nude photos, but it has now grown into a full-fledged social media platform where users can share a variety of content with their followers.
Even though Snapchat has tons of other features, including videos and the opportunity to meet new people, it’s still a great sexting app, and it’s free.
Why we chose this:
Over the past 12 years, Snapchat has climbed up the app food chain and become a staple of mainstream social media. We can say that it is on par with Facebook, Instagram and even TikTok. According to the Associated Press, the app has approximately 406 million daily active users and more than 7 million Snapchat+ subscribers.
The core functionality of the app lets you send whatever you want (naughty images, sexy voice messages, or private text messages) and have it disappear once the recipient opens it. Users can choose a time limit of 1 to 10 seconds or an “unlimited” option, which allows recipients to view the photo as often as they like before closing it. And, like other apps on this list, Snapchat sends screenshot notifications, so you can send bae a quick message about your item without having to worry about whether they’re secretly showing it to someone else behind your back.
This month, the app announced that more features will be released. You’ll soon be able to edit chats within five minutes of sending, express yourself with emoji reactions, and get alerts through My AI Alerts.Also, new AI lenses are coming soon, including 90s themed lenses, which makes me sad – if it was the 90s real long, long ago? Was my childhood nothing more than a nostalgic free exercise, a soon-to-be Halloween costume for today’s youth?
Despite its functionality and ephemerality, Snapchat still carries some risks, especially if you’re in the middle of a heated conversation and accidentally send a snap to the wrong person or your Story (*screams*).
In addition to the potential disaster caused by human error, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have been in the news for stealing Snapchat secrets through Project Ghostbusters. According to Mashable, the project would allow Facebook to decrypt Snapchat’s web traffic to gain a competitive advantage over the popular messaging app. Facebook can’t snoop on messages or photos, but the company uses software on users’ smartphones to secretly measure Snapchat usage data.
Although the actual project dates back to 2016, plans for Ghostbusters were only recently revealed in documents made public in a class-action lawsuit against Meta. So if privacy is your primary concern, remember that sexting is only as safe as the platform you’re using or the person on the other end of the conversation.
